At Semanoff Ormsby Greenberg & Torchia, LLC, our attorneys have a broad range of experience in working with many of the participants in the highly regulated health care industry. Our clients include physicians’ practices of all sizes and types, durable medical goods and equipment companies, health care service providers and administrators, county managed care programs, hospital medical executive committees, skilled nursing facilities, continuing care retirement communities, and pharmaceutical marketing and sales companies.

We assist health care businesses with state and federal regulatory concerns, such as medical licensing, accreditation and certification, and organizational governance requirements and peer review. We can help you navigate complex fraud and abuse laws. This includes the federal Stark Law, Anti-Kickback Statute, Civil Monetary Penalties Law, the Exclusion Statute and the False Claims Act. We routinely assist our clients on patient privacy and security compliance matters.

​

A sample of issues that we can help address are:

• Accountable care organization developments
• Accreditation matters
• Aligning incentives to manage costs
• Business agreements (medical director, employment, joint venture)
• Physician practice buy-out agreements
• Bylaws review and/or development
• Complying with HITECH amendments
• Contract review
• Electronic signatures/authorizations
• Equipment purchase decisions
• Fraud and abuse laws
• Health information technology
• HIPAA Compliance
• Affordable Care Act (ACA) Compliance
• Implementing an EHR system
• Licensing concerns (facility and professional)
• Managing business associate relationships
• Negotiating contracts with providers
• Provider and payor relationships
• Data breach and cyber-security issues
• State regulation
• Structuring business transactions
• Updating policies, procedures and forms
• Right-to-know issues